Trump was meeting with lawmakers at the White House on Thursday to discuss a bipartisan immigration deal when he reportedly grew frustrated at the suggestion that immigrants with protected status would need that status restored.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said.

Condemnation from around the world followed swiftly, and in some cases, in no less salty language than president’s own choice words.

Vicente Fox, Mexico’s former president and a long-time Trump troller, said that the president’s mouth was “the foulest shithole in the world.” He then reminded him that America’s “greatness” was built on diversity.

.@realDonaldTrump, your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world. With what authority do you proclaim who’s welcome in America and who’s not. America’s greatness is built on diversity, or have you forgotten your immigrant background, Donald?

SHAME ON TRUMP! The world is witnessing a new low today with this #ShitholeNations remark! totally unacceptable! uncalled for moreover it shows a lack a respect and IGNORANCE never seen before in the recent history of the US by any President! Enough is enough!!

“Let’s not kid ourselves,” he said. “The sentiment the president expressed today is a racist sentiment.”

Late Night host Seth Meyers reacted by walking off set in despair, while Chelsea Clinton Tweeted that some of the president’s towers and golf courses were probably built by citizens of the nations he had maligned.

In an interview on MSNBC, Rev. Al Sharpton blasted Trump as building a “whole presidency on race”.

“Do you have to spray paint the n-word in the Oval Office or have a hood in the Lincoln Bedroom to be a racist? If you advocate everything whites only … and at every opportunity you disparage people of color, you are dealing from a racist and bigoted point of view. And the danger is that he is now putting that into policy in America.”

The NAACP accused Trump of falling “deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of racism and xenophobia” and called Thursday’s remarks a “low point” among the “continuous lowbrow, callous and unfiltered racism repeatedly espoused by President Trump.”

Members of the Republican party have also broken ranks to condemn the president’s comment.

Republican Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Haitian-American elected to Congress, called for the president to apologize after his “unkind, divisive, elitist” comment.

Tim Scott, the GOP’s only African-American senator said in a statement, “If these comments are the President’s words they are disappointing to say the least…Our strength lies in our diversity, including those who came here from Africa, the Caribbean and every other corner of the world.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Lady Liberty was “weeping” over Trump’s “atrocious” comment, and James Comey, the former director of the FBI fired by the president, responded with the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: